The Sun. — London, England, 1808-04-29 00:00:00

L ,11) E LIAM ENT HOUSE. OF PEERS, `THURSDAY, APRIL 28. Bill. on the table were fOrwarded in their resr , siages. - Two private Bills were brought frbit the Corn- Ey:in .Nepean, and ptlier Members;read a first time. A piivate Bill returned, agreed to, was also bruLight up by Mr. Blackburne and °tiler Members. The Irish Wool Bill was read a third time and passed. DANISH SHIPS. Lord HAkvxssiwaylaid on the table several ,Pa pers moved for on a former day by Lord Viscount Sidmouth, respeCting, the Danish Vessels. detained previous to Nstilities ; which mere eirdered. to be . printed. , . • Lord Viseonnt SIDMOUTII said,. there were still sQtne further Papers, which it was' requisite should be cu the table .previous to the discussion of this . Fubje6l; bin as theke might probably be presented 10-morrow, he should now give notice of his inten tion to matte a motion on Tuesday respeaing these Vessels, which would particularly advert to what he considered the unprecedented manner in which, under the then existing circumstances, Danish Ves . - • *els were detained in our ports previous to the com mencement of hostilities with Denmark ; and also to the situation of those Vessels, which at a distant date bad been detained by our'Cruizers, and after wards restored by Decrees . of the Court of Admiralty; but .which had been subsequently detained iu our. ports in common.with other Danish Vessels. His Lordship concluded, by moving for Copies of any Orders issued for the seizure or detention of Danish Vessels, between the Ist of June and the Ist of Sep tember, 1807.—Ordered. The Noble Viscount then observed, thatos there must be an Address to his Majesty for these Papers, they could not probably be presented so soon as to ., morrow; but he had no doubt they might be laid on the table to be in time for his motion on Tuesday, for , which day he moved that the Lords be sum ruoned,—Ordered. Adjourned till to-morrow (thIS day). • - HQ USE OF' COMMONS. THURSDAY, APRIL f2B. The Hot4se proceeded to-ballot fur a Committee 'on the Grampound Elpetion Petition, but there not acing a ktutficient .number of Member 3 present liable to serve to form a list, au Adjournment took place tiff to-moriow 'Obis day). MAILS. ARRIVf D-t Watertord. Upte-t Dubin, Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY AT TVIIiiVZ 91C1.0Cii• - '" . • • TUJ ,S UN. ZOLIM QUIS alc:r.RE 41.51.161 AUDIAT NDO 0 IV, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 180 a. LA '.;'r night Driteii Papers to the p6th inst. reach- all town, but they are quite barren of intelligence. Orders, it is said, have been issued for the Spanish Ilea in the Harbour of Cadiz to form a junction with the French Squadrons ; but hew these orders , are to be executed without permission from our Ad . mirais, we are not told, A letter from Leghorn states, that no accounts have been received of -the Rochefort Squadron. It is said that there is a constant interchange of pqvidcrs lietween•Vienna and Paris, and that some Negotiations of importance are carrying on. .13uo- N rAlt T E has probably required some further cession or territory from Austria. We should not be sur prised if he ha deipanded•Trieste. The noble'resolution of Sweden to tOntend, irk support of her independence, against the lawless et tacks of her unprincipled neighbours, has tStieri great offenne to the Oppositio:: Writers, - who See in it an ICllp.ttc It disregaru_of the will and pleasure of their Hero, 13c9NArt,ItTE Hence those gentle hints which are daily hoizarded, of the madness of the Swedish Monarch, and the misfortune of his people in being subje6ted to the fool-hardy obstinacy of such '" an outrageOni Don Quixote !" and hence ;hoax eternal' prophecies that resistance will be iii vain, .or merely serve to exasperate st• Power might be softened into clemency 11/ uncouth t“!nal ! One Paper, nu less remarkable for its coarse in. .sc:!ence than its gross and incomprehensible stupi ;lily, reprobates the idea of sending any military as istaitce to the Svedes ; and, after a patriotic hint cur brave troops are doomed to unavailing 4,:struaion, exclaims, with great self-complacency, What can the King of Sweden do against 3.oo k uop Russians?. Instead of answering this question, we-Watt* this Writer, in our turn, , where he learned that Russia had the power of sending 00,0,900 men against the King of Sweden„? Was it in the same society which informed him : that " Malta was 300 leagues from Sicily rand that the resent “Admi nistration Lid determined-to evacuate both 'these Islands !"--But the interrogation of fools is near to folly, and we khall tlivefbre put no route cp4;stitiv, but toberly qocleavouy tcy, alleviate the 12prehellsion3 of our Acdecti, (it any are scrioluij, 141 &&&&&& ••••••• of an invasion of Finland.', When Russia was str4gling for ail that was, or at least, that ought to be;'valtrable Co her, narntly, honour and independence,_ both of which she has now lost, she was unable to 'bring into the field '150,000 fighting men, or—if we may bclieve the "Knight of the woeful countenance,"- the most fretful, peevish, and ill-boding of all agents---even two-thirds of the number that she has no objea in vipw, but to gratify the interested - Malice of a than whose aim is to waste her strength, and render her an easy prey,' when his other avocations shall afferd him leisure to seize his viaim, can it be supposed that she will un , furnish her frontiers, and hazard her existence, to send the whole of her forces against a few towns 'buried in snow for eight months of the year, and a few leagues of bleak heath condemned to eternal sterility, and a night of several months duration ! We are not unacquainted with the Country of which we speak, nor with the present state of Russia, and- We can affirm, without fear of contradiaion, that all the resources of the latter ,would not. suffice to maintain an army of 60,000 men in Finland fQr two campaigns. That Russia may seize the frontier 'Country, that she may even advance several days march into the interior, we readily grant ; but her difficulties will increase at every step, and will only, terminate . when she retraces her progress':. The real strength of Finland is in the towns which . bor ' der the Coast, and conurtand the Creeks which pe netrate several leagues into the Country; and these, thanks, eternal thanks, to the wisdom and vi gour of the men who planned dud executed the Ex pedition to Copenhagen,'are far beyond the reach.of,. Russia. It is probable that the Opposition Papers,' which doubt of nothing (particularly that which we' have quoted), believe it possible for the Russian armies' to penetrate into S . weden Proper, by turn ing the Gulch of Bothnia! ! !—TQ such an Atm we have nothing to say ; it is too mad to be entertained hi the maddest Bedlansite, unless he be a determined oppOsitionist, and believe in the infallibility of XI the Talents. " But," says the Paper in question,. Sweden, , will not only be attacked by 300,000 Russians, but ► by the whole Continent in arms ! ! We have our doubts of this, and feel marvelleusly . Porn: forted, when we relied * that the men who broach such cowardly follies, and who once tided upon them, are driven into 'obscurity with Merited contempt. We know no nation that will join Russia irk he'r most wanton, proftipte, and sui cidal invasion a Miami.. BUuNAPARTU certainly will not ; the country affords no plunder, and the paucity of inhabitants will not sufficiently minis- ter to his inordinate thirst of blood. Pruitt sia has neither men, money, nor, if we may speak out, appetite for fighting at present, even on the side of her kind and disinterested Ally Austria is out 'of the question ; and if we except Spain, who is exceedingly concerned in putting Russia into possession of a few acres of snow, we are fully persuaded that the whole honoor of Finnish war will rest with that Power alone! But we forget the Danes, and "the sixty thou sand French in Zealand, under the .command of BERNADOTTE !" With respe& to the Danes; we have, on more than one occasion, expressed not only oar own but the Swedish opiniiin of ,then), Which is nut very dissimilar. It has been our for ' tune to :talk with many'Swedes on the subject of their neighbours ; and the. contempt, the ineffable eontemPt, in which they hold them, both as men or soldiers:is scarcely to be conceived. We doubt whether their opinion has been changed much for the better by the conduet of the " magnanimous King of Denmark," in flying, like a poltroon, from his capital, and then punishing the few troops left in it, because they did not suffer it to be wholly de stroyed, to gratify his unnatural rancour against , the English ! Be the Danes, however, what they. wilt,: we see no great likelihood of their coming into eon tael with the Swedish troops. That constant theme of consolation and triumph, the seizure of the Da nish Fleet, has left Sweden master of the Sound, and, with our powerful assistance, we believe that she will be more than equal to confining the Danes .to their own territories. As to -the sixty thousand French troops, we could almost wish, by way of punishing the arrogance, the malice, and the base ingratitude of Denmark, that they really were to be found . in Zealand. There, however, they . will not speedily arrive. BUON A PARTE has a natural antipa thy to trusting his armies in Islands—they are the proper. possessions Of this country, of the masters of the ocean, of the men from wheal Iris Fleets fly s;:attered in every dtreCtion ! But were there as many myriads of French in Zealand, as there are falsely said to be thousands, they hove no better meaus of getting to .Scatia than the panes, and 1 must content themselves with sitting on the shore, as at l{oulogne, and seeing the sea before them co- Yer. o 4 c5:it 1 .9 )1 . 4 L. 3 . 1 . 1 . 1 .4.viq. Great Britain.— ,1LL.1,-3111 AWU .I.olPlMilft..l.l/cly %%%%%11%, JO 11101 blind confidence in the friendship of BUONAPARTE, that artful Usurper mill nevel,hazard his armies where the communication is. insecure, and a Fleet which he cannot resist would prevetit him from covering and supporting his rear with all the merce naries of proitrate and enslaved Europe. We have said enough to prove that the entire subjugation of Sweden is not altogether so certain as the Opposition Writers Seem to hope and believe.— We will go fUrther, and venture to express our opi nion, that the determination of Government to as . sist that country in .repelling the iniquitous aggres sion of her unprincipled enemies is as wise, as pa triotic, as.conducive to the present and future inte rests of Europe, as the proposition advanced by the leaders of the , Party, and which, we trust, will never be_sutfered to fall into oblivion, but be hold up to the scorn and execration of all ages, of sup plying Sweden, instead of arms and ammunition, ships and men, to defend her just cause, wills A MILLION STERLING, to buy a treacherous and inse.. cure peace of the. Enemy of their Country, who would thus be enabled to carry on his internecine war again st.her. with added means sod advantages ! THE circumstance of the sudden and unexpeCted retreat the Russian Army in Finland, which was mentioned in the Swedish Papers whiCh we received yesterday, is also positively stated in , several priv4te Letters, but no Official Account of it has been receiv ed here. In some of those Letters this retreat is attributed to the want of provisionsin others to the dissatisfaeition of the Court of Petetsburgh at.the condutt of General hi NOT at Lisbon, who, it is stated, has prevented any provisions from being furnished to the Russian' Fleet in the Tagus, in the hopes that , the Officers and Crews ufould be compelled to come on shore, for the purpose of returning home over-land ; / by which means the Fleet would fall into the hands of the French.—We know not whether there be any truth in this state ment, but there are undoubtedly rumours on the Cone tinent that a considerable degree of coolness subsists' between the Russian and French Courts. If this be true, and .the Emperor ALEXANDER retains any recolledion of those principles which formerly ac tuated his condu€t, the transa6tious which have re cently, taken place in Spain must completely open his eyes, and convince him not only of the impOlicy„ but of danger of his present system. The fol lowing are extracts from the Letters to which we have 'alluded : " STOCKHOLM, APRIL 18.—Various reports have reached us within these few days from Finland, but which are not confirmed by official statements. The 'Russians are withdrawing altogether 'rum Finland, Rus4ian and Swedish Mail is arrived ; and, . what • is most extraordinary, the former brings English letters. Aland, where the Russians had a strong detachment, has been suddenly evacuated : the ma gazines, &c. 'have been left behind; and these the Troops, according to the orders they received. first, were to take with them. It is understood Ite, that the Russians had something important to communi cate to our Court, and that a Courier was displtehed to the, King for that purpose ; .but- as he has i)c. rived, we suppoge his journey has been retar&ri ay the ice and snow. Ttie reason tor all this is stated to be, the conduct of the French at Lisbon towards the Russian Fleet;' . some sly provisions were im-' properly withheld tram. ii, and others, that they en. deavoureci 'to make , the Ships their own ; be that as it my, a difference, it is asserted, has taken place between_ the Russians and their new friends, the ifrenCh ; and the former are apprehensive of being attacked by the latter at Warsaw, in Poland." 7 no doubt, to be regretted, that our Rela tions giad Allies, the Russians, shOuld have taken advantage of a season so favOurible to their oPera tions, in order treacherously, arid like a banditti, to attack our ultramarine possession, Finland. This , event, as naturally happens on ,such occurrences, occasioned a very great consternation here; -report was, as customary, very busy to circulate the tri• tin - Thant progress of the Enemy ; and we were of ten, on exainiuing the accounts which arrived,. with the map in our hands, constrained to believe that our forces, under the command of CRONSTEDT and KLINGsPOIt, were not only cut off from all commu nication with each other, but that they had also been obliged to lay down their arms. Thus were affairs situated even. up to the end of the tri6th of March, - when the- Russians had advanced as far; as Puikila, seven miles from Uleaborg, when, on a sudden, atraip took a very different turn. " The Russian troops had sustained very great loss, even from the season ; had no provisions, nor horses, and entertained great fears of a thaw, when they would have been surrounded by marshes and morasses in every dire6tron, without being able either to advance or to retreat. Thus circumstanced, the Russian Gcneral resolved, and very wisely too, to retreat in time; and on the last of March the Enemy evacuated the northern part of Finland. The respective corps of KLINGSPOR and CRONSTEDT have formed, a junction, and amount to more than 20,000 men. They occupy the central part of East Bothnia, which' is quite clear from the Enemy. Sweaborg, under the command of another Crum- STEDT, is impregnable ; and as soon as the waters are openod, a considerable re 7 inforcemeat will pro .ced from hence to Finland. We have now in this harbour 40 Gun-boats, equipped and manned. The Committee of Convoys are busy in fitting - out five Men of War. The Com mittee of the Navy are fitting out ten or fifteen frore ; and when we add to these ten or fifteen Frigates, Fire-ships, Ike. and ten Gun-brigs, which 4 • are now tilting out, you will surely riot reproach Siockholm with not having, done its best endeit. • vuors for our cause;." C: Li r, - PLYMOUTH, APRIL 27.—This morning the 13i ir of 50 guns, Capt. LAUGHA.RNE, in three weel3 from ;Madeira, passed up Channel, for Portsmouth ; Mr..!. SCOTT and Mr. PRINGLE, Passengers, with Dispatches, landed here from het. A few Merchant Vests are gone up Channel,:, under convoy of the /shy :I•.The 3d and 1t th Regiments of Foot were at Macieira ; the Island is healthy, and the inhabitants and British Troops are on the most friendly terms. The El Rosario, Spanish Prize, laden with hides, cochineal, indigo,. and a quantity. of dollars, captured by the Lhin, ti 4, on her iiassage to the East Indies, isfone up Channel, under convo y of th e I s i s . Shit w — ai:taken after a chace of several hours, in which the El Rothrig carried away her mainmast, and on her passage home touched at Madeira, from whence she brought four . English Passengers. The Diana Frigate is said to be off the Harbour, from America. She was detached from Admiral DucxworrEt's Squadron, to gain intelligence of the • Rochefort SquadrOn, the result of which is not • • known. Mr. J. L. CRANIUM, Mr. D. VEAux, ANTHONY, 9nd Mr. ChirAlMgl SCOTT, carne. Pass'' stingers in the El Rosario from Madeira; they tone no particular news. PORTSMOUTH, Aratr. 28.—Arrived this day the Flying Fish Schooner, from a cruize, and Sylvis Cutter, from the Downs, th a few outward-Mound Ships, 'Coasters, and Colliers. a4L, APRIL !IL—His Majesty's Ship Clyde, Commodore Ovistr, with the Fearless Gun -brig, sailed this morning, on a cruize off the Coast of tV,ria4Cg. - - The Sylvia Cutter sailed last night for Portsmouth. The Minx Gun-brig put back last night, and sailed this morning for Yarmouth. Tlte Cutter which was taken by the Skylark, the ofF day, proves to be La Furet French Privateer, with 60 then onboard, five of which were wounded before she was taken possession of by the Skylari Boats. The Zebra Bomb has the convoy s i gnal for Ott Westward flying. stlAnwtca, Aram troopc have yet arriv' ed to embaik at this place : it is, however, certain t hat the 4th and three companies of the otli will embark to-marrow. H.Jtwlc}z, Amt. 519.—Lait night put back the Diana Packer, with the of Friday last for Got• tenburgh. This morning arrived the Ace of Wales Packet, with mails and Passengers from Gottenb uro " This day the 4th and 900 Regiments, and three CoMpanies of the 9btla Regiment were embarked on board the Transports lying here. The 79th " a 92d Regiments march in to-morrow. His Majesty's Ship Vielory, Admiral SAtmiAREi, witti'a SlOop cif 'War in company, is now lying 61* the Buoy of Ruff, within sight of this place, lbe wind being unfair for thein to get into Yartno9th Roads, 81IELIINESS A A,i i. 26.—The Winchthea made the signal for a convoy to Gottenburgh. APRIL t!7.—Arrived the 7'urtulent Gun -brig, Lieut. Nova,, and Sorguil Sloop, of 18 guns, c3pt• CATHCART, from Heligoland, the former with the 2.mck of a small Vessel in tow. Arrived the Bloodhound Gun-brig, Lient. Frrz' GERALD, from the North Sea. Royal Navy, has th e c hi e f di re cti on o f the RAMSGATE, APR IL 27.--,Captain RAviss, of t he e intorka• 2 ° tionj at this place, whi c h i s manage d w ith greatex pedition, the men marchi ng on . b oar d on a platf orm , laid across from th e Pi er to t h e V esse ls. Th e dila farent Transports lea v e th e h ar b our a s soon as P"'" sible,after they have received their Eno , and pro" ceed for the Downs. The 2d division o f the. ro Light Battalion of the G erm a n Legion, about 5. men, and 480 of the Ist Light Battalion, Iv al were all embarked" on Monda y , sailed yesterday 104 six Transports. The 2d division of the Ist Light Infantry arrived e here yesterday forenoon, and in the Afternoon th Ist Battalion of the German Legion from Con ter: . A . bury. They were all embarked before night, '4 the Transports sailed this day for the Dc)wns• The 2d Battalion of the German Legion arrived ti ts day, and is now embarking. The 4th j3attalivn.4. expeaed to-morrow, and the 7th on Friday. . 1 : ,T rd. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY• . . , , ' To.the Thalia, for this Capture nfthe French Lugger r ki .', o ~ vateer Le Itequiii, every Monday and Thursday, for t— 1 nidifits; 'at NO. 23, High street, Portsmouth. •cke - r To the • Cormorant, for the Capture of the ProYl, )l ;,„ I ,4 ij Koopman, at Mr. lohns's,'_ Ilfracombe, near Mount"'l; ,-' combe, Devon, on the ad May ; and for three years a t same place. . o' T old" 6 't'o the Squirrel, for the Capture of La Cecile, at 0 , r o, Offh.T, Plymouth, on the ad May, or on board the Squ' r is - on her arrival at the first post in kni,land i and atter ° at 1 onkin's Office, Plymouth. ehir To the Tamer, for she Capture of the American q i , Sallvt n lyestern's O ffi ce, Gray's-Inn-square, on the r" . of ak.art'a afterwards at tke same place. . 60 0 T 10ffictir., Nun-commissioned officers and 1:- ci f - .44.en , wivywere actually in the, Garrison of Goree at th ' , 0 Pitt of the Spanish Schooner La Airnahle Mariana. ? r i ce , i 1 ';:ith inst. at N..), 8, Ncw City Chambers, Hishopsgar '•b l . tat t. and on Wednetclaysand Fridays tollowing at the same Pi 04 to,the G up. brig . Sharpshooter, for the Re. capr4r e ( : .1 cut- • , t,. Patet;t, ‘ ot London ,in comeany'with the Ilritannta lure thia ter, - - On ti-T.ard, orhier arrival at Guernsey ; anc.! O r . rnWltftnc rig tvl at N. v t .Ar‘indel• Vicar. 4 ' . . , f,